Thanks to everyone who responded to my question re free collocate cloud tools. Here is a summary:<br><br>Barbara Plank, Lynne Flowerdew, Loic Barrault and Eric Atwell suggested <a href="http://www.wordle.net/">http://www.wordle.net/</a> - works with text and, in the advanced mode, with weighted frequencies. It's very easy to use.<br>
<br>Sussi Olsen suggested 
<font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/wordcloud" target="_blank">http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/wordcloud</a> for texts.</font><br>
<br>David Beaven said word clouds can be extracted from the the BNC and the Scottish corpus using:<br>
<a href="http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/corpus/search/collocatecloudstart.php" target="_blank">http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/corpus/search/collocatecloudstart.php</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/corpus/bnc/" target="_blank">http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/corpus/bnc/</a><br><br>John Milton gave me the link to :<br>
<a href="http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/collocates-of-dat" target="_blank">http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/collocates-of-dat</a>a<br><br>Culy Christopher suggsted <br>

<a href="http://www.eurac.edu/en/research/institutes/multilingualism/Projects/LInfoVis/CorpusClouds.html" target="_blank">http://www.eurac.edu/en/research/institutes/multilingualism/Projects/LIn<br>
foVis/CorpusClouds.html</a><br>
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<a href="http://visapi-gadgets.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/termcloud/doc.html" target="_blank">http://visapi-gadgets.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/termcloud/doc.html</a><br>
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